Stephen Baker wrote:

I don't think it's Mankind as such, Peggie - I think it's just governments with
nothing else to do but sit and make laws ;-)

Most laws are a result of pressure on lawmakers from special interest
groups who have an agenda. If boat builders are forced to eliminate swim
platforms and transom cockpit seating or make hugely expensive
modifications to gasoline engines to reduce CO danger, it won't be
because government lackeys dreamed up the idea all by themselves...it
will be because lawmakers are pressured into it by boat owners who've
killed or disabled their own children through their own stupidity.

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Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
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